The 75-year-old Cottage Inn on East William Street closed its doors last spring, and now Coratti’s is ready to open theirs. The old building has been transformed into a fun, colorful, open-concept restaurant, with two bocce ball courts, about 220 seats for guests, and a market next door. Vintage bikes hang from the ceiling and metal garage doors open to let in a summer breeze.

This is the second Coratti’s of its kind. The family-owned business started as a fine dining restaurant in Milford before evolving into the pizza bar and bocce concept in Howell. The restaurant had started it’s ongoing expansion in East Lansing when restaurant Owner Peter Coratti learned The Cottage Inn was closing in Ann Arbor, and jumped on it.